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Environment and
Economics in Project Preparation - 1999
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A key feature of this book is the inclusion of ten cases illustrating
practical approaches to environmental economic analysis in situations
where information and time are limited and entail a lot of resources.
The book provides case-specific examples of bringing environmental
concerns to focus, thus providing guidance based on real world examples
for project designers and evaluation experts on how to use
environmental valuation for project design. From these examples, it can
be concluded that the inclusion of environmental valuation in project
design improves project quality. 1999. 394 pages.
Guidelines
for the Economic Analysis of Projects -1997
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Provides
guidelines for ADB staff, consultants, and officials of developing
member countries in assessing project proposals for economic viability
and financial sustainability. It includes sections on environmental
costs and benefits, the distribution of net benefits, and sensitivity
and risk analysis. 215 pages.
See also:
Handbook for Integrating Risk Analysis in the Economic Analysis of
Projects - 2002
Handbook
on Gender Dimension in Projects - 2000
Economic Analysis of Policy-Based
Operations (2003)
Handbook for Integrating Poverty
Impact Assessment in the Economic Analysis of Projects (2001)
Handbook for the Economic Analysis
of Health Sector Projects (2000)
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This is an executive summary of the report
Global Environmental Change:
The Threat to Human Health,
released jointly by the Worldwatch Institute
and the United Nations Foundation in November 2009.
Global Environmental Change:
The Threat to Human Health
Executive Summary
Samuel S. Myers, Md , MPh
Over the past two-to-three hundred
years,
humanity’s ecological footprint has ballooned
to such an extent that we are now fundamentally
altering the planet.We have transformed the
Earth’s land surface and altered the function of its
ecosystems, and we are triggering the rapid loss of both
terrestrial and marine life. We are also profoundly
changing our planet’s climate. It is increasingly apparent
that the breadth and depth of the changes we are
wreaking are imperiling not only many other species,
but the health and wellbeing of our own species as well.
As humans convert more land, water, and ecosystem
services for their own use, the environmental changes
resulting from these activities are combining to magnify
several serious public health threats, including:
exposure to infectious disease, food scarcity, water
scarcity, air pollution, natural disasters, and population
displacement. Taken together, these represent the greatest
public health challenge of the 21st century.We need
to act with urgency to reduce ecological disruption
while simultaneously strengthening the resilience of
populations to withstand the impacts of unavoidable
environmental change.
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Programa de las Naciones
Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Regional Office for Latin America and the
Caribbean
United Nations
Environment Programme
Environment for development
News Center
Impacts
of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner: New Science Report
Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in Copenhagen
Washington/Nairobi,
24 September 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be
outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of
the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). An analysis of
the very latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions
at the upper end of the IPCC's forecasts are becoming ever more likely.
Meanwhile, the newly emerging science points to some events thought
likely to occur in longer-term time horizons, as already happening or
set to happen far sooner than had previously been thought.
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From BBC News - 25 October 2007
GO4: Humans failing the
sustainability audit
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
With its Geo-4 report, the United Nations tells us that most aspects of
the Earth's natural environment are in decline; and that the decline
will affect us, the planet's human inhabitants, in some pretty
important ways.
Geo-4 provides a check-up on the health of the planet. Feel like you
have heard it before? Of course you have, not least from the UN. So
what, you might ask, is special about this report? Why is it worth any
more than a cursory headline glance before returning to the party?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
18 January 2007
"Doomsday Clock" Moves
Two Minutes Closer To Midnight
The Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock conveys how close
humanity is to catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and
monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and
foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass
climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences
and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm.
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Civil Society and Social Movements Programme
Paper Number 16 October 2005
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Environmental Movements, Politics and Agenda
21 in Latin America
María Pilar García-Guadilla
The scarce interest in, and the lack of support given to, Agenda 21—the
official, mainstream agenda adopted at the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992)—by
Latin American governments, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and
social movements may be explained in part by the region’s economic,
political and social crises that have defined priorities other than
those stipulated in Agenda 21. The main concerns of the region over the
last decade have been poverty and political stability, not sustainable
development. Another obstacle for the advancement of Agenda 21 is the
fact that sustainable development and participatory democracy are such
broad concepts that there is no agreement on their meaning among Latin
American governments, NGOs and social movements—and not even within
NGOs and social movements.
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Friends of the Earth - 8 November 2005
Britain:
Young people take action on climate change
Sixty per cent of
young people, aged 8-14, are concerned that the world will suffer the
effects of climate change when they are adults and more than seventy
per cent of them already take action at home or school to save energy,
a new survey reveals today. The results are published as part of
Friends of the Earth's activity week for schools `Shout about climate
change', which runs from 7-11 November 2005.
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BBC NEWS
Planet Under
Pressure
A six-part BBC News
Online series looking at some of the most pressing environmental issues
facing the human race today. By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment
correspondent
Introduction
Part
1: Species under threat
Part
2: World water crisis
Part
3: Energy crisis
Part
4: Feeding the world
Part
5: Climate change
Part
6: Fighting pollution
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Why the Sun seems to be
"dimming"
Horizon:
Global Dimming |
| WTO: Trade Liberalization Reinforces the Need for
Environmental Cooperation (October 1999) |
| UNEP: GEO-2000
Global Environment Outlook
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| U.N.: Global
Change and Sustainable Development: Critical Trends. 1997 |
| U.N.: Protection
of the atmosphere (1996) |
| U.N.: Science
for Sustainable Development (1997) |
| Sustainable
development |
Per capita
Nitrogen Oxide Emissions, 1970-1997 (OECD)
Carbon Dioxide
Emissions, 1980-1994
Per capita
Sulphur Oxide Emissions, 1970-1997
Selected
Countries: Participation in Major International Environment Agreements
Common Air
Pollutant Emissions (OECD)
Exports to LDCs
of Recyclable Secondary Material, 1995
Major OECD
exporters of RSM, by Value, 1995
Major OECD
exporters of RSM, by Volume, 1995
Selected
Importers of OECD RSM, 1995 |
| UNFCCC: Convention on
Climate Change |
| R.Rojas:Sustainable
development in a globalized economy (1997) |
| R.Rojas:Sustainable
development in a globalized economy?.The odds.(1999) |
| LINKS: The unnatural cycle |
| J. Jontz: Chile, forests, investments and NAFTA |
| Staying Alive |
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| R.Rojas: Agenda 21 revisited (notes) |
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* UNEP -Industry and environment
* United
Nations Environment Programe |
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| Envirolink |
| Industrial
Pollution Control Research Project |
| WWW
Virtual Library on environment |
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| Global
Environment Facility |
| Center for Economic and Social Studies on the
Enviroment |
Institute of Development Studies
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The Convention and Kyoto Protocol
on Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol |
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| New Scientist: Global Environment
Report |
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DE KYOTO DE LA CONVENCIÓN MARCO DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS SOBRE EL CAMBIO
CLIMÁTICO
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PROTOCOLE
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